"Life is still life, whatever its pangs; our……" — Charlotte Bronte
"Life is still life, whatever its pangs; our eyes and ears and their use remain with us, though the prospect of what pleases be wholly withdrawn, and the sound of what consoles must be silenced."
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Charlotte Bronte
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315 Quotes by Charlotte Bronte
Charlotte Bronte has 315 quotes on this site.
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I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will.
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Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs.
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You know full well as I do the value of sisters' affections: There is nothing like it in this world.
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The human heart has hidden treasures, In secret kept, in silence sealed; The thoughts, the hopes, the dreams, the pleasures,…
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The soul, fortunately, has an interpreter - often an unconscious, but still a truthful interpreter - in the eye.
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A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow.
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Men judge us by the success of our efforts. God looks at the efforts themselves.
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If all the world hated you, and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved you, and absolved you from…
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I feel monotony and death to be almost the same.
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I don't call you handsome, sir, though I love you most dearly: far too dearly to flatter you. Don't flatter…
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I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward.
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Life is so constructed, that the event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation.
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More Consoles Quotes
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Day by day, we are becoming what we shall be eternally. The spirit who convicts us is also the spirit…
— Charles Spurgeon
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The only thing that ever consoles man for the stupid things he does is the praise he always gives himself…
— Oscar Wilde
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Woman makes half the sorrows which she boasts the privilege to sooth. Woman consoles us, it is true, while we…
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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The architecture we remember is that which never consoles or comforts us.
— Peter Eisenman
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Have you never been moved by poor men's fidelity, the image of you they form in their simple minds? Why…
— Georges Bernanos
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Old people are fond of giving good advice; it consoles them for no longer being capable of setting a bad…
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Everybody's saturated with the marketing hype of next-generation consoles. They are wonderful, but the truth is that they are as…
— John Carmack
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Since it is likely that, being men, they would sin every day, St. Paul consoles his hearers by saying 'renew…
— Saint John Chrysostom
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The cardinals have elected me, a simple and humble worker in the Lords vineyard. The fact that the Lord can…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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A wise Providence consoles our present afflictions by joys borrowed from the future.
— Hosea Ballou
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I suppose I do believe that the greatest art consoles a wound that it creates, that art can give you…
— Christian Wiman
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As a result, we will continue to see more innovation on the Internet and on mobile phones than on consoles.
— Trip Hawkins
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